Country star Jason Aldean is coming to New Orleans this fall, with a show at the New Orleans Arena on Friday, Oct. 25. The hard-charging, heavy-rocking guitarist last played South Louisiana at 2012’s Bayou Country Superfest, delivering a set that NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune music critic Keith Spera said “evoked Dwight Yoakam fronting Guns n’Roses.”

Aldean has a New Orleans connection: New Orleans-born singer-songwriter Jim McCormick (who now lives in Nashville) co-wrote his song “Take A Little Ride”, the lead single from Aldean’s fifth and latest studio album, “Night Train.” “Take A Little Ride” hit #1 on the Billboard country charts, and landed in the top 20 of the hot 100.